Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-18 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Kevin Ross wrote: What's funny is that VESA comes up right, it detects my card beautifully; but then it complains that there aren't any screens. Sounds like it can't find a matching resolution and refresh rate. The VESA driver is limited in what resolutions and

Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-18 Thread Kevin Ross
I've got VESA to work now. I had to set it to use a bpp of 8, and then it came up fine. My computer has been up for 15 hours now, and I've been in X all this time; so I guess things are working alright (Although none of my consoles work now. *sigh* Something about the refresh rate being

Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-17 Thread Kevin Ross
I am running Sid with XFree86 4.0.3-3 on Linux 2.4.4. My predicament, you see, is that my X server seems to hang the machine whenever it fancies. I have maximum uptimes of about 15 to 20 minutes of usage. If I don't touch my X server, it's fine. If I don't use my X server, it's fine.

Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-17 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Kevin Ross wrote: I am running Sid with XFree86 4.0.3-3 on Linux 2.4.4. My predicament, you see, is that my X server seems to hang the machine whenever it fancies. I have maximum uptimes of about 15 to 20 minutes of usage. If I don't touch my X server, it's fine.

Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-17 Thread Kevin Ross
What's funny is that VESA comes up right, it detects my card beautifully; but then it complains that there aren't any screens. Sounds like it can't find a matching resolution and refresh rate. The VESA driver is limited in what resolutions and refresh rates it will support. In Section

X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-16 Thread Simon Law
Hello, I seem to have a small, and mysterious problem. I am running Sid with XFree86 4.0.3-3 on Linux 2.4.4. My predicament, you see, is that my X server seems to hang the machine whenever it fancies. I have maximum uptimes of about 15 to 20 minutes of usage. If I don't touch